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Analysis of renal diseases detected in renal biopsies of adult patients: A single-center experience.
Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl
July 2019
Department of Nephrology, Dorab Patel Post Graduate Training and Research Center, The Kidney Center Post Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, Pakistan.
Renal biopsy is crucial while evaluating for the diagnosis of glomerular, vascular, tubulointerstitial, and genetic diseases. It gives vital information which helps in estimating the disease prognosis, progression, and management. This is the retrospective analysis of all adult patients aged above 18 years, who underwent percutaneous renal biopsy at The Kidney Center Post Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, over a duration of 18 years, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClinical variables differentiating diabetic from nondiabetic kidney disease in patients with diabetes: A single-center study.
Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl
July 2019
Department of Nephrology, Dorab Patel Post Graduate Training and Research Center, The Kidney Center Post Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, Pakistan.
Patients with diabetes may have kidney diseases other than the diabetic kidney disease. Kidney biopsy is the investigation of choice when this is suspected. This retrospective analysis included all patients known to have diabetes mellitus (DM) and who had a kidney biopsy at our center between 1998 and 2014.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Pictorial Key for Culex pipiens Complex (Diptera: Culicidae) In Iran.
J Arthropod Borne Dis
September 2016
Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Yazd Health Center, Yazd, Iran.
Background: The aim of this study was to design pictorial key and taxonomic literature of Culex pipiens complex in Iran.
Methods: Larvae were collected using standard dipping methods in 13 randomly selected areas of Bushehr, Hamedan, Kerman, Khorasan-e-Razavi, Khuzistan, Mazandaran, Tehran, Sistan and Baluchistan and Yazd Provinces from April 2009 to October 2010. The data were analyzed using SPSS Ver.
Frequency of kidney diseases and clinical indications of pediatric renal biopsy: A single center experience.
Indian J Nephrol
May 2016
Department of Nephrology, Dorab Patel Post Graduate Training and Research Center, The Kidney Center Post Graduate Training Institute, Karachi, Pakistan.
Kidney biopsy occupies a fundamental position in the management of kidney diseases. There are very few renal pathology studies available in the literature from developing world. This study scrutinized the frequency and clinicopathological relationship of kidney biopsies done at the kidney center from 1997 to 2013 amongst pediatric patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComment to the article 'Use of psychotropic drugs during pregnancy and breast-feeding'.
Acta Psychiatr Scand
May 2016
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St. Olav University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Genetic and serological surveillance for non-primate hepacivirus in horses in Japan.
Vet Microbiol
September 2015
Transboundary Animal Diseases Research Center, Joint Faculty of Veterinary, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima, Japan; Laboratory of Animal Hygiene, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
Non-primate hepacivirus (NPHV) is a recently discovered homolog of the hepatitis C virus in horses. The frequency and distribution of NPHV infections among horses in Japan is unknown. In this study, serum samples from 453 horses across Japan were screened for NPHV RNA using real-time RT-PCR and anti-nonstructural 3 protein (NS3) antibodies using the Gaussia luciferase immunoprecipitation system assay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPregnancy outcome following maternal exposure to mirtazapine: a multicenter, prospective study.
J Clin Psychopharmacol
June 2015
From the *STIS and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; †BELTIS Rabin Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, University of Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ‡School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva and Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland; §UKTIS, Regional Drug and Therapeutics Centre, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom; ∥The Israeli Teratology Information Service, Israel Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel; ¶Teratology Information Service, Helsinki University Central Hospital and HUSLAB, Helsinki, Finland; #TIS, Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, Den Bosch, The Netherlands; **Servizio di Informazione Teratologica, Padova; ††Centro di Riferimento Regionale di Tossicologia Perinatale, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy; ‡‡CZTIS, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; §§Poison Control, Bergamo, Italy; and ∥∥Terafar-Izmir Katip Celebi University Teratology Information, Training and Research Center, Izmir, Turkey.
This multicenter, observational prospective cohort study addresses the risk associated with exposure to mirtazapine during pregnancy. Pregnancy outcomes after exposure to mirtazapine were compared with 2 matched control groups: (1) exposure to any selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI, control subjects with a psychiatric condition) and (2) no exposure to medication known to be teratogenic or any antidepressant (general control subjects). Data were collected by members of the European Network of Teratology Information Services between 1995 and 2011.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMortality trend among hemodialysis patients during the islamic month of Ramadan: a 24 years retrospective study.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak
March 2015
Department of Nephrology, Dorab Patel Postgraduate Training and Research Center, The Kidney Center Postgraduate Training Institute, Karachi.
Objective: The effect of month of Ramadan on the mortality in hemodialysis patients, and to compare it with that in all other Islamic months.
Study Design: A descriptive study.
Place And Duration Of Study: Hemodialysis Unit, The Kidney Center, Karachi, from January 1989 to December 2012.
Triggering drug use in patients with psoriasis: an investigative report from Turkey.
Postepy Dermatol Alergol
October 2014
Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey. Head of Department: Assoc. Prof. Çoşkun Bakar MD.
Introduction: The patients clinically diagnosed with psoriasis were investigated for drug use that may trigger psoriasis.
Aim: To minimize the triggering drug use and help the medical treatment of psoriasis patients.
Material And Methods: The study involved 289 psoriatic patients who attended our clinic in 2010-2012 and were asked to bring their drug lists of the last year, which they obtained from the pharmacy's record system.
Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout.
BMJ Qual Saf
October 2014
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, Palo Alto, California, USA Perinatal Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research Unit, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Background: Leadership WalkRounds (WR) are widely used in healthcare organisations to improve patient safety. The relationship between WR and caregiver assessments of patient safety culture, and healthcare worker burnout is unknown.
Methods: This cross-sectional survey study evaluated the association between receiving feedback about actions taken as a result of WR and healthcare worker assessments of patient safety culture and burnout across 44 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) actively participating in a structured delivery room management quality improvement initiative.
Revisiting human IL-12Rβ1 deficiency: a survey of 141 patients from 30 countries.
Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2010
From Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases U980 (LDB, A. Samarina, J. Bustamante, A. Cobat, SBD, J. Feinberg, L. Jannière, YR, MDS, XFK, OFS, A. Chapgier, CP, LA, JLC) and Laboratory of Normal and Pathologic Development of the Immune System U768 (AF), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France; University Paris Descartes (LDB, A. Samarina, J. Bustamante, A. Cobat, SBD, J. Feinberg, L. Jannière, YR, MDS, XFK, OFS, A. Chapgier, CP, AF, LA, JLC), Necker Medical School, Paris, France; St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases (A. Samarina, SBD, XFK, LA, JLC), The Rockefeller University, New York, New York; Prince Naif Center for Immunology Research (SAM, SAH, ZAS, AA, JLC) and Department of Pediatrics (SAM, ZAS, AA), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Department of Pediatrics (SAM, SAH, SAJ, HHF, AAG), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Study Center of Primary Immunodeficiencies (CP) and Pediatric Hematology-Immunology Unit (AF, JLC), Necker Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France; Department of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (FD, AI), Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey; Dr Sami Ulus Children Health and Diseases Training and Research Center (GT), Ankara, Turkey; Department of Pediatrics (SAA), King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology (PA, DM), National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Teheran, Iran; Laboratory of Cytoimmunology (IBM, RB), Pasteur Institut of Tunis, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisia; Department of Immunology (JY, M. Oleastro, AB), Juan-Pedro Garrahan National Hospital of Pediatrics, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Pediatrics (BZG), Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel; Department of Immunology (CRG), Gran Canaria Dr Negrin University Hospital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Laboratory of Immunology (IC), Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Pediatrics (NK, GA), Ege University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey; Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology (DSK, S. Patel, RD), Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Immunology Laboratory and Respiratory Infection, Inflammation and Immunology Unit, Departments of Pathology and Thoracic Medicine (A. Exley), Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Astrid Lindgren Childrens Hospital Karolinska University Hospital (OJ), Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Immunology (JR) and Department of Infectious Diseases (DN), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Lviv Regional Specialized Children's Hospital (YB), Lviv, Ukraine; Department of Immunology (BP, MP), Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Pediatrics (S. Anderson, ML), Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Immunobiology Clinic (LS, A. Efira, FM) and Immunodeficiency Department (KS), Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity (FM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Laboratory of Virus Control (MM), Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Internal Medicine (TS), National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Medical Center, Kumamoto, Japan; Department of Pediatrics (CAS), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of International Relations (KF), Ministry of Health, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (RBS), Giessen, Germany; Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology (J. Bernhöft), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Department of Pediatrics (J. Freihorst, UB), University Hospital Center-Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia; Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Immunology (FH, FDB), University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium; Infectious Diseases Unit (VN), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; MRC Center for Immune Regulation (DL), The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (CV), Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc et Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Pediatrics (DT), Mont-Godinne Clinics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Clinical and Experimental Immunology (CN), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Unit for Respiratory Infections, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (WHH), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany; Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie (IMF, BF), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; Pediatric Department (JL), Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel; Department of Pediatric Hematology (RR), Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Chennai, India; Department of Pediatrics (ACC, DBL), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases (SMH) and Infectious Diseases Susceptibility Unit, Laboratory of Host Defenses (SR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Department of Pediatric Allergy (KDY), Immunology and Rheumatology and Department of Medical Research, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, and Chang Gung University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Clinical Immunology (Xiaochuan Wang), Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Clinical Immunology Laboratory (Xiqiang Yang), Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China; Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (PPWL, KWC, YLL), Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China; Department of Pediatrics (TXC), Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Department of Immunology (GC), Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; University Hospital of Caracas (IN), Caracas, Venezuela; Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital (A. Codoceo, AK), Santiago, Chile; Department of Immunology (LB, DDG, MIG), Ricardo Gutiérrez Children Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Laboratory of Investigation in Dermatology and Immunodeficiencies, Department of Dermatology (DDMV, ASG, AJDSD), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Pulmonology (RA), Children's Hospital Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Immunology (FJER), National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico; National Center of Bone Marrow Graft (MB), Tunis, Tunisia; Clinical Immunology Unit (AAB), Ibn-Rochd Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco; Laboratory of Immunology (JEB), Military Hospital Mohamed V, Hay Riad Rabat, Morocco; Department of Pediatrics (NÖ), Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology (MK, A. Somer), Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology (NH, CA), Bakirkoy Maternity and Children's State Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Pediatrics (S. Asilsoy, SG), Dr Behçet Uz Children Research and Training Hospital,Izmir, Turkey; Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, Clinical Immunology and Allergy Division (YC), Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey; Immunology Division (TTO, OS), Hacettepe University Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey; Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease (M. Ozen), Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey; Department of Pediatrics (SM, NP), Infectious Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Biochemistry (S. Pedraza), INCMNSZ, Ministry of Health, Mexico City, Mexico; Section of Allergy-Immunology, Department of Pediatrics (MSE), Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar; and Adult Immunopathology Unit (CF), Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France.
Interleukin-12 receptor β1 (IL-12Rβ1) deficiency is the most common form of Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD). We undertook an international survey of 141 patients from 102 kindreds in 30 countries. Among 102 probands, the first infection occurred at a mean age of 2.
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